Aaron Karo Quotes, Smart Quotes, Writing Quotes

What is with waiters who don't write anything down and memorize your order instead? Are you trying to impress me or something? If you were that smart you wouldn't be a goddamn waiter in the first place.

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The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.

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The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

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Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.

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I write because I need to share my thoughts with the audience.

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If there is any difficulty in what I write, it is because of the material I use. The thought is always simple.

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Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I can keep going, if at all, is by writing, not through rest and sleep. I am far more likely to achieve peace of mind through writing than the capacity to write through peace.

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there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes or speaks commits it every day and not merely once or twice but every time he open his mouth… there is nothing of our own in it except some slight change born of our temperament, character, environment, teachings and associations

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For years I've advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness.

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When you're writing about something that happened, it helps you transition to the present. Ironically enough, by focusing on your presidency, it helps you realize that you're no longer the president. By reliving moments, it helps you stay focused on the moment.

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Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.

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I'm very interested in compassion - compassion for oneself and others. I write about very complicated characters and experiences and try to do it without judging the character or the action.

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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

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If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.

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The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean.

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When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.

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We read often with as much talent as we write.

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Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections.

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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

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Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

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